Text: Zuo Xiuxia
Figure: From the network
Wang Dadong is a neighbor of my family, his profession is to sell tofu, in the countryside, this kind of craft is passed on to men and not to women. Now that it has reached Dadong, he is looking forward to having a son in the future, and when the son is older, he will have a successor himself.
But the imagination did not go as expected, deviating from the track he expected.
Wang Dadong and Li Huaxi, a girl from a neighboring village, married each other and gave birth to their first daughter, and the whole family was quite happy.
The couple has a little regret in their hearts, "one dragon, two tigers and three leopards", in the traditional countryside, the son is the heirloom.
In the hope of ushering in the second daughter, Wang Dadong's face was gloomy, he did not pay attention to his wife Li Hua, and went to the village mouth alone to sulk, smoking cigarette after cigarette.
Still Wang Dadong's elderly mother, she really couldn't look at it anymore, sighed, and she washed and wrapped her granddaughter up and put her daughter-in-law in the nest.
"What iniquity in all my life"! Wang Dadongniang murmured in her mouth. Wang Dadong is a single biography, and Wang Dadongniang has long wanted to hold her grandson. Wang Dadongniang still forced her daughter-in-law to stew some soup, and then went into her hut. Leaving the daughter-in-law Li Hua secretly weeping.
Who doesn't know the pain of pregnancy in October? Giving birth to a daughter, not only was not well taken care of, but the mother and son were still disliked, and Li Hua's heart could not say the grievances and discomfort. He took his daughter in his arms and cried "hissing".
Flowers blossom thanks, new hope, Li Peanut under the third daughter.
Wang Dadong completely collapsed, the strings of thought could no longer be tightened, and he cried loudly. "I'm so miserable!" Wang Dadong roared, and his face was twisted and deformed because he was angry and sad and disappointed.
Wang Dadong was crazy, wandering around in the wild for days and nights, not eating, drinking, and not returning to the house, thinking to himself: The backbone of the spine will be broken by the neighbors!
Wang Dadong's elderly mother, whose health is not very good, usually has to walk on crutches. The daughter-in-law will be gone for a few days, and she will never be seen again.
In the countryside, the phenomenon of son preference still exists, and Wang Dadong has three daughters, which has attracted the contempt of many neighbors. For himself, the discussion of others is also like a mountain pressing on his back, unable to breathe freely.
"Go your own way and let others say it." Wang Dadong should have such an enlightenment.
Wang Dadong has no son, he feels that the dwarf is waiting, and wherever he goes, it seems that there are people pointing at him. Maybe Wang Dadong was acting strangely in his heart, cocooning himself.
If you can really do the prime minister's belly to hold the boat, are you still afraid of the boat overturning?
"Dadong, my son, what is the use of girls reading, spending money to cultivate, when they are old, they will fly away." Wang Dadong's mother blows the wind from time to time, afraid that a little money she has saved for many years will be empty.
"Mother said that we are too stupid, our daughter will leave sooner or later, and the money spent on studying is not adrift?" Wang Dadong explored Li Hua's ideas.
"You listen to your mother, your daughters read, you don't provide, I provide!" Li Hua said angrily.
Wang Dadong was speechless.
The three daughters blinked, they were older, and reading was imminent, and Li Hua took the lead and sent them to school one after another.
The clothes and shoes worn by the three daughters, the school bags they carry are the same, the hairstyle tied every day is the same, the height is not bad, the look is also a little close, and the stranger still thinks that it is a triplet.
For many months, the three daughters looked particularly handsome, very clever, talked and did things with boards and eyes, and were filial to their grandmother and parents. When I came home from school, I either hunted grass, or helped clean up, or helped my mother wash vegetables and cook, but I was diligent.
Wang Dadong and Li Hua had a few strands of relief in their hearts, and felt that there was a lot of joy and laughter at home.
The three girls did not care about what Grandma had said before, and often ran to Grandma's cabin after school to see it to be at ease.
In winter, help grandma to come out to bask in the sun, send ice cream to grandma to eat in summer, and help with mosquito coils, because there are many mosquitoes in rural summer. Grandma gradually fell in love with several little granddaughters, and would take out the pocket money that her daughter secretly gave her, buy candy for her granddaughters to eat, buy little people's books to read.
Since the third grade of primary school, the teacher will visit Wang Dadong's home once or twice a year, saying that the children are reading material, especially the eldest daughter Wang Hua and the second daughter Wang Ni. Let parents grit their teeth for their children to read, and only when the books are read well can there be a way out.
Hopefully, Mr. and Mrs. Wang Dadong will care more about their children. Tofu sells more vigorously.
"Sold tofu, sold tofu..." Wang Dadong carried tofu, entered the next village, put down his burden, dragged a long tone, and the sound sounded from the beginning of the village and spread to the end of the village.
Hearing the familiar voice, you have a bowl, I have a basin, this one for a dollar, the other for three dollars. Some people were planting seedlings in the field, barefoot, sprinting back 100 meters, in order to buy some delicious tofu from Wang Dadong.
"Dadong, you are not raising a daughter, you are raising a golden phoenix, a silver phoenix!" Seeing that Wang Dadong spent so much effort to raise his daughter, and the neighbors coaxed, Wang Dadong heard some confusion, and even laughed.
The three daughters, as they get older, study harder and harder, because the mother's loving eyes are enough to melt their hearts, and it is a crime to live up to such maternal love. The youngest daughter Wang Qin has a little difficulty in learning.
They also understood that their parents raised them as sons, rarely, and with a small amount of cold wind and cold rain.
No matter how much learning materials, no matter how expensive, as long as they are useful, Li Hua will definitely buy them, and she has heard that what nutrition is good and beneficial to learning, she also wants to find a way to make it for children to eat.
Li Hua simply wanted to give all the stars in the sky to her daughter, if there was a ladder. She is also fulfilling her childhood lost dreams, putting all her enthusiasm and patience into it.
Li Hua's childhood because of the preference for sons and daughters of the grandfather, did not go to school, dou da characters do not know one, is an illiterate, regret the intestines. I learned a few words in a literacy class, but soon I forgot it.
The eldest daughter, Wang Hua'er, and the second daughter, Wang Ni, were admitted to a key university after diligent study, and the youngest daughter, Wang Qin, was named Sun Shan.
The burden was finally almost completed, and Wang Dadong added some new tools to the tofu workshop and renovated it. Wang Qin said that his head was too blunt and he was unwilling to repeat it, so Wang Dadong asked his younger daughter Wang Qin to help him lay the groundwork.
"Craftsmanship cannot be passed on to girls, we have only passed on to boys for generations!" Wang Dadongniang stubbornly blocked outside the workshop to prevent Wang Qin from participating.
"Mother, Wang Qin's surname is Wang." It's your granddaughter! I'm forty or fifty years old, are you going to make me have another son?! Wang Dadong enlightened the mother, and the niang returned to the main house, and the mother was amused by his words.
But without a grandson, this can only be the case, Wang Dadongniang sighed deeply, and also acquiesced to this wordless ending.
Because Wang Dadong insists on making tofu throughout the whole process, so tofu is more delicate and pure than other people's tofu, so Wang Dadong's tofu sells at a speed comparable to the speed of high-speed rail. Tofu flowers, including tofu flowers, are pre-ordered at shops that sell breakfast. Some county people even drive to his workshop to buy tofu.
After the youngest daughter Wang Qin joined the ranks of Wang Dadong, she added modern elements to this craft, introducing e-commerce operations and online sales. Shoot videos, brush pinyin, open live broadcasts, and sell tofu to thousands of households.
Tofu is getting better and better, more and more. Wang Qin gave tofu a lot of nice names: cardamom age, green plum bamboo horse, people to middle age, endless memories, old things, small village legends, the road to riches, the power of love...
According to different names, they are cut into different shapes, some square, some heart-shaped, some round, some five-pointed stars, some lotus-shaped... Many fans said that buying Wang Dadong's tofu, buying memories, buying stories, buying moods, buying happy and joyful.
Some fans say that eating the taste of monasticism evokes golden memories of childhood!
Unexpectedly, the three golden flowers, the youngest one stayed with his parents and became the most intimate little cotton jacket. Who says women are inferior to sons and daughters? The daughter is also a descendant.
After the supply exceeded demand, Wang Dadong mobilized his neighbors to make tofu together, without reservation to share the tofu making technology and experience to everyone, developed many pure handicraft workshops, through on-site guidance, tasting, etc., to drive everyone to take action, Wang Dadong a village has become a well-known "tofu village".
"I am not rich alone, everyone is rich is called really rich, this credit can have a large part of my little queen's piano!" 」 Everyone often paid tribute to Wang Dadong's kindness, invited him to taste tea, drink some small wine, and Wang Dadong waved his hands boldly.
"That's it! Our Wang Qintou has really become the golden phoenix of our village today, and if any hairy boy wants to marry her, we will not let this phoenix go! Hearing everyone's praise and thanksgiving, Wang Dadong became a flower!
Because of the wealth, the whole village is also like Wang Dadong, and the feeling of happiness is indescribable.